Sekiryo Kaneda

Sekiryo Kaneda (also known as Sekiryo Yamauchi) was the second president of what is now Nintendo Company Limited. He married the daughter of Fusajiro Yamauchi, Tei Yamauchi, and took the Yamauchi surname.

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When Sekiryo took over Nintendo, he was in charge of Japan's largest card maker. In 1933, Sekiryo established a joint-venture company, and renamed it Yamauchi Nintendo and Co. In 1947, he established a distribution company, Marufuku Company Limited.

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Nintendo: Nintendo (Japanese: 任天堂; , ) was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. Over the years, it became a video game company, one of the most powerful in the industry. Aside from vid...

Fusajiro Yamauchi: Fusajiro Yamauchi is the founder of the company that is now known as Nintendo Company Limited. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan, and had a daughter, Tei Yamauchi, who married Sekiryo Kaneda....

Tei Yamauchi: Tei Yamauchi is the daughter of Fusajiro Yamauchi, first president of Nintendo. She married Sekiryo Kaneda, who adopted the Yamauchi surname after marriage....